Paul wrote:So our current king of Frickintardistan filed a calendar 2008 return and got a refund, and thinks he's home free because the IRS hasn't seized his bank accounts yet? Sounds like the old joke about the man falling off a skyscraper, saying, "So far, so good" as he passed each floor.
Exactly. Harvester (or Nationwide at losthorizons) is not exactly the brightest bulb on the tree. Check out these comments from him, posting as "johnthetaxist" at another web site (last summer, I believe). Regarding what were then the pending criminal charges against Hendrickson, Harvester wrote:
Famspear, I think there's a slim chance one of the 10 counts will stick, but I see no law Hendrickson has violated.
Of course, Hendrickson was easily convicted on all ten counts in October 2009. The jury easily found the law Hendrickson violated. As I recall, after Hendrickson was found guilty, Harvester then predicted (in so many words) that Hendrickson would not be sentenced. I'm not sure, but I think Harvester was (until recently) implying that Hendrickson would not go to prison. However, I think Harvey doesn't believe that now.
More from Harvester/johnthetaxist (last summer):
It's significant that the IRS/DOJ has tried for SIX (6) years now to silence Hendrickson and put him away - and failed - he still has his property and his freedom. If he was truly filing based on a scheme or "scam" wouldn't the case be a fairly routine open-and-shut win for the govt?
Duuhhhh...... This is a guy who obviously has no concept of how the legal system works, or how long these things take. Those lines were actually written while Hendrickson was facing his criminal trial -- and Harvey knew that.
Now, check out this classic from Harvester:
Famspear, with all due respect, I'm open to the possibility it's a scam [referring to Hendrickson's Cracking the Code scam], but you've said little to persuade me; right now the greater possibility is ... the IRS has scammed us all. Your declaration that its irrelevant whether the income tax is a direct or indirect tax is really not helping your cause. It's demonstrative of your ignorance of primary law, the US Constitution, upon which the statutes are founded on and must not contradict.
Duh....
Of course, it's not "my case." And I wasn't trying to "persuade" Harvey; I was laying down the law -- literally. And "my" declaration -- that whether the income tax is direct or indirect is irrelevant to the issue of apportionment -- was not somehow hurting my "case" -- under the Constitution, the statutes, etc., that's the rule. It's not "theory" that I somehow came up with on my own. Look at what the courts have said:
Thus, since the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment it is immaterial, with respect to income taxes, whether the tax is a direct or an indirect tax.
---from
Sortillon v. Commissioner, 38 T.C.M. (CCH) 1097, T.C. Memo 1979-281, CCH Dec. 36,194(M), Docket No. 2108-79 (July 26, 1979).
Since the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, it is immaterial with respect to income taxes, whether the tax is a direct or indirect tax.
---from
Abrams v. Commissioner, 82 T.C. 403, CCH Dec. 41,031 (1984).
Harvester also wrote:
Likewise, you should entertain that tiniest of possibilities that Hendrickson is right. What if I told you there's a long range plan (well advanced, I might add) to destroy the US as a free and independent republic. What if that plan involved the Federal Reserve and the IRS? Do you think our government is insusceptible to corruption? That certain tyrants could not gradually "take-over" an agency with accomplices and billions of paper dollars?
I will not stand idle while tyrants hand my money to elites, usurp the rule of law, and takeover the country my fathers fought & died for. I will risk "final notice of intent to levy" seizures, yes even jail, just let it not be said that I did nothing.
And then Harvester/johnthetaxist slides into one of his "WE THE PEOPLE will take over the country some day" wackadoosterisms:
......consider that future when the dollar collapses and WE THE PEOPLE are running wild in the streets (some well-armed, no doubt). Consider well your words & on whose side you will stand. For we are in a great contest, the BANKERS/ELITES/IRS v. WeThePeople/CONSTITUTION and may God have mercy on those who choose wrong.
http://freedomwatch.uservoice.com/pages ... on?page=65
(bolding added).
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